Remove Read More Link or Jump Break Link Provided by Blogger

Half an hour ago I published 10 ways of customizing Read More links. However some of you might be facing a problem in styling the read more link in official blogger Designer templates. In order to apply the style effects to such templates you will first need to delete the read more link provided by blogger and install a custom read more link or button in less then 3 minutes.

Delete Jump Break Link In Blogger

1. Go to Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
2. Backup your template
3. Click the "Expand widget Templates" Box
4. Search for this,

<data:post.body/>

    5.   and just below it find and delete this code,

<b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
<div class='jump-link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + "#more"'><data:post.jumpText/></a>
</div>
</b:if >

     6.   Save your template and you are done

Add a Custom Read More Link

Now to add a custom read more link which can be fully customized in various looks please follow this tutorial,

• How To Show only Post Summary in Blogger?

Now after having added the link, it would be even more interesting by changing its look by reading this tutorial,

• Customize Read More Links

Learn How To Show Post Summary using The “Read More Link” or “Continue Reading link”

A good blogger can be identified by the way he manages his blog and organizes his posts. The homepage is the most important part of every blog. The homepage must contain up to 5-6 posts in order to seize the attraction of reader as much as possible. Keeping a reader busy for a longer time is what I call a blogging success. Showing 5-6 posts is load-time and user friendly only if you show a summary of each post. On my homepage you must have seen a Read More Link, clicking which expands the entire post. Look at a screen shot Below,

This link just adds beauty to your blog along with some pro spice to it. So lets learn how to summarize your posts and give them the expandable functionality.
The steps that must be followed for planting this TNT are,

• Go to layout > Edit HTML

Now The Most Important Step –> Back Up Your Template

By backing up your template I mean that you must save a copy of your current template in your computer hard drive. If in case something goes wrong, you can restore your template and have everything working as normal as before.
To backup your template click on the link saying Download Full Template , as shown below

If suppose something goes wrong , you will simply click the Browse button, locate your saved template and then simply click the Upload button to restore your template back to normal.

• Click on "Expand Widget Templates" at the top right hand corner of your Edit HTML page

• Now find this code ]]></b:skin> 

Tip: Pressing Ctrl + F  and then paste this code into the search box, as shown below,

The search box is an easy way of finding codes in your template.

• Just after ]]></b:skin> copy paste the code below,

Tip: Highlight the code below and then press Ctrl + c to copy the entire code and then press Ctrl + v to paste the code

<style>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
span.fullpost {display:none;}
</b:if>
</style>

• Now find this code  <data:post.body/>

And just after <data:post.body/> add the code below,

<!--READ-MORE-STARTS-->

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>

<div style="text-align: right;">Read More ->></div></a>
</b:if>

<!--READ-MORE-STOPS-->

You can replace the text in red with anything you like, e.g: Continue Reading, Keep Reading
If you want to shift the "Read More->>" text to the extreme-left side, use this code:

<!--READ-MORE-STARTS-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>
<div style="text-align: left;">Read More ->></div></a>
</b:if>
<!--READ-MORE-STOPS-->

• Save your template and you are Done!

Read Further to know How to Apply this TNT in your Posts
Now whenever you want to write a post in windows Live Writer, follow the procedure below,

• Once you had finished writing your post, as shown below,

• Just after completing your post click on the source button at the bottom of your windows live writer page,

You will see something like this,
 

• Now use the code below to hide the portion of your post that you don’t want to be shown on your homepage

<span class="fullpost">
</span>

Now suppose if you want to show the post only till the lines
I have explained everything in these images so read carefully!
So you will add the codes as shown below,

You can see in the image above that I have added <span class="fullpost"> just above the part of the post I wanted to hide. The text that I want to hide is the one below,

“Please use windows live writer only for writing quality posts. This TNT of Read More link works best with windows Live writer. Blogger Editor is simply annoying and this trick simply just don’t work efficiently with it. If you still want to use blogger editor rather than windows live writer than frustration is what you will encounter! “

I added </span> to the part where the entire post completes or source code ends

In short add <span class="fullpost"> just before the text to be hidden and add </span> just after it

That’s All!

You can use some of the Images below instead of that Read More –>> text
 
To add an image instead of text simply replace Read More ->> in the code above with this,

<img border="0" alt="read more" src="URL Of Your Image"/>

Replace URL Of Your Image with your image link.

Update:-

I have created some high quality Read More Buttons, may be you will like them more. Visit these links,

• Blinking Read More Buttons
• Animated Read More Buttons
• Arrow Head Read More Buttons

If you want to learn how to add  these images instead of that Read More->> text, then let me know so that I could write a new post on that. And believe me adding an image instead of a text is extremely easy.

Create a Floating Feedback and Back-To-Top Button For Your Blogs

Asking your visitors to leave you suggestions or feedbacks can be pretty easy only if you provide them with an easy access to your feedback page. Readers are often lazy and getting them to leave a feedback is often tough. However you can let them comment willingly if you add a floating feedback button to your blog, that floats as a reader scrolls down or up. This floating button can be made more user friendly and eye-catching if you add a roll over effect to it. Hover your mouse over my feedback button at the bottom-left corner of this page and observe how the button magnifies when you hover your cursor over it. Liked it? Lets now learn the TNT of adding a Feedback Button to your blogs, along with a Floating Back-To-Top Button, which I will discuss later.

Free High Quality Flash Clocks For Your Blogs

125 by 125 Ad Banner Widget For Blogger/Blogspot Blogs.

Early this morning I tried to create some tables using simple HTML. Remarkably I arrived at a really easy and well optimized code that could be used to show your 125 by 125 Ad banners just like the one on my sidebar. This widget is named “125 by 125 Ad Banner Widget”

See an example below,

         

 125 by 125 Ad Banners Widget  (1)

Here is the code to be pasted in your HTML/JavaScript Widget,

<div align="center">
<table border="0"  cellpadding="2" cellspacing="6" width="265" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tbody><tr>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#0084ce" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="6" width="265" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tbody>
      <tr>
       <td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img width="265" height="37" border="0" alt="Advertise Now!" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" /></a></center></td>
      </tr>

    </tbody></table>
</div>

Now make the following changes,
1.  Replace URL OF ADVERTISER with the website link of the advertiser
2.  Replace URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE with the Image link of the Advertiser’s banner
3.  Replace AD DESCRIPTION with some information related to the Ad. The description appears when some hovers his mouse cursor over the banner.
4.  If you want to increase the distance between the ad blocks then adjust width="265" . By default 265 is the minimum width of this banner widget. You can’t further decrease the width.

• If you want to increase the number of rows of this ad widget and want to add two other Ad blocks i.e 6 ad blocks. Then simply copy paste the code below just above </tbody></table>

<tr>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
</tr>

• If you want to have a more fancy Ad widget like the one below,

125 by 125 Ad Banners Widget  (2)

  then copy and paste the code below in your HTML/Javascript Widget

<div align="center">
<table border="0"  cellpadding="2" cellspacing="6" width="265" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tbody><tr>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
<td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img border="0" alt="AD DESCRIPTION" width="125" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" height="125"/></a></center></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table border="0" bordercolor="#0084ce" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="6" width="265" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tbody>
      <tr>
       <td><center><a href="URL OF ADVERTISER" rel="nofollow"><img width="265" height="37" border="0" alt="Advertise Now!" src="URL OF BANNER’S IMAGE" /></a></center></td>
      </tr>

    </tbody></table>
</div>

Follow the same steps as instructed above to customize this new code.
If you are searching for some Ad Banner Images than may be you will like the Animated 125 by 125 AD Banners
I hope you will surely like this widget. The internet is full of tutorials for such a widget but most of them use complex CSS and ask you to edit your blogger template but this one is using simple HTML and is a copy-paste widget code. Kindly let us know how you find it.

Most Viewed Posts Widget With Thumbnails by Blogger

Blogger recently introduced there Most Viewed Widget which is also called Popular Posts widget. This gadget displays the posts which has the maximum number of pageviews in three ways i.e. All time, monthly or weekly. It is a great tool to engage your readers more and increase your page views. It will also help you know which of your posts leads the row.
Live Demo

Add The Popular Posts Widget To Your Blogs

1. Go To Blogger > Design > Page Elements
2. Click "Add a Gadget"
3. Choose the Popular Posts Widget

    4.  Set your settings in this way,

  5.   Save your widget and you are done!
May be you will like these widgets too:

• Related Posts Widget
• Recent Comments Widget
• Recent Posts Widget

For thumbnails to appear make sure you always add an intro image of 100px by 100px at least in your post starting paragraph. The square size will give a more clearer picture. You can make the image as big as 300px by 300px.

Feedburner Recent Comments Widget For Blogger

 Just few months back I wrote a post on how to add a Recent Posts Widget by Feedburner to your Blogger and Typad blogs and today we will learn a similar tutorial based on a really attractive and fast loading Recent Comments widget offered by Feedburner. This widget is really fast loading in a sense that it is well scripted and the JavaScript it uses is stored on feedburner’s server so there will be no load time delay on your blog. You have seen this widget hanging on my sidebar inside the multi-tab widget. So lets learn how to add it to blogger.

To add the Recent comments Widget By Feedburner to your blogs follow these steps,

Burn Your Comment Feed At Feedburner

1.  Login To Your Feedburner Account. Incase if you don’t have one simply sign up for a free account.
2.  Insert your Comment Feed URL inside the Feedburner box. The URL for Blogger Blogs will be like this,

http://YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

Replace YOUR-BLOG-NAME with your blog’s good name.
3.  Press the Next Button and you will be brought to a new page. Simply insert an easy memorable Feed title and feed address. I prefer both to be the same.


4.  Press Next and then fill the two options on the new page as shown below,


5.  Finally press the Next button again and you have successfully burnt your comment feed!

• Now click the publicize button just at the top

• On the left sidebar click BuzzBoost

• Hit The Activate button on the right pane

• Then fill in the options as shown below,

Its advisable to leave all boxes unchecked.

• Finally click the save button and get your HTML code which will be just at the top of the page as shown below,

• Done!

Adopt a similar procedure for Typad

How to Add the Recent Comments Widget To Blogger

Now once you have copied the code for your recent comments widget then simply follow the steps below,

1. Log into Blogger
2. Go To Layout
3. Click Add a Gadget or Add a Page element
4. Choose HTML/JavaScript Widget
5. Now paste the Feedburner code inside this widget and hit save
6. Done!

Finally Preview your template to see it hanging on your sidebar :>